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Nine Theses on Wikipedia: A Special Feature
I submit these nine theses to Wikipedia’s community and to the world. I do this, as Martin Luther said when he posted his famous 95 theses, “Out of love for the truth and the desire to elucidate it.”
My Blog
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Is the Filioque legitimate, or a corruption?
Note: This essay was originally posted as part of a much longer series. I think that because it was buried in that series, like a chapter of a book, it did not get much attention. So I am now re-posting it, and will later repost other answers to questions in the “The Denominational Distinctives” individually,
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The Meaning and Main Texts of Christmas
As many people now seem to claim Christmas as a kind of “spiritual but not religious” holiday—most not believing that Jesus is God—the actual significance of the Advent and Incarnation has become opaque. It is now a teachable moment for most. Christmas means that God, the one and only creator of the universe who first
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Grokipedia: a first look
To begin with my credentials for those who arrive here not knowing who I am: I’ve started, or helped start, five encyclopedias and meta-encyclopedia projects, including Wikipedia.((I founded Nupedia and Wikipedia, advised the design and launch of Encyclopedia of Earth, founded Citizendium, and founded the Encyclosphere including EncycloSearch and EncycloReader; I’ve also advised Ballotpedia and
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On Wikipedia, the God of the Bible Is the Head of a Pantheon
My God is called, in the Bible, Yahweh. That is, Yahweh is a speculative transliteration of the Hebrew name we know only by the vowel-less “tetragrammaton,” YHWH, or יְהוָה, which in generations past was rendered instead Jehovah. In your Bible, the name is translated, rather than transliterated, with the stylized the LORD. This is the
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How to Choose a Church: Quick Notes
In the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, many people have declared that they will attend Church for the first time in a long time, or ever. This is excellent and I hope they follow through. But their next natural question is one that I wrestled with for literally five years before I made
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Which projects would best serve the Kingdom?
I am not going to give an in-depth discussion of this question myself. I will, however, give you a bunch of notes. Mostly, the reason I am posting is to get your feedback on the question in the title. And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that
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“Why we are the pure, primitive Church”
Many partisans defend their particular Christian denominations by constructing arguments that have the conclusion, “This is the purest form of Christianity.” Look and see if I am not correct. Here, then, is a brief summary of how the various denominations think of their own claims to being the pure, primitive Church.((Note: many of the rows
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On the cybersecurity subcommittee’s Wikipedia investigation
Congress is now investigating Wikipedia. More precisely, according to a letter dated August 27, 2025 and sent by Rep James Comer (R-KY) and Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) to the CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation, Maryana Iskander, the cybersecurity subcommittee of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has launched an investigation into Wikipedia. Having recently
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Why the ACNA
Here is why I am joining the traditional Anglicans. I announced last week that I am seeking to be confirmed in early September in the Anglican Church in North America. I have begun attending St. Augustine’s Anglican Church in Westerville, Ohio, which worships according to the 2019 Book of Common Prayer. I sang old hymns,
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The Denominational Distinctives III: Further High Church Distinctives
In Part I, I discussed those questions that distinguished Catholicism and Orthodoxy, on the one hand, from all of Protestantism, on the other. In Part II, I began to discuss questions that distinguish “High Church” traditions (Catholicism and Orthodoxy again, but also including Lutheranism, much of Anglicanism, and some of other traditions) from “Low Church”
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/larrysanger- An open reply to Jimmy Wales. He's wrong: Grokipedia won't necessarily be biased; and, obviously, the Trump article is badly biased. First of a series of replies to Jimmy's remarks in this Reason exposé: https://reason.com/video/2026/02/23/can-you-trust-wikipedia/
- I invited my X peeps to ask me questions and then "like" the various questions, and I would upload the answers in video form. Here it is! Christian identity – 1:10 "Call no man teacher" – 9:25 Role of government – 15:45 Authority & resistance – 19:15 Wikipedia labor – 24:20 Net value of Wikipedia […]
- Made for beginners, family, friends, study group members. Most of this stuff is obvious after you use LLMs long enough. If you have more good ideas, put them in comments!